I've always hated Churchill worship. Its not hard to see how evil he was. Besides being a disgusting, pompus, aristocratic douchebag

No nothing as powerful as mayor of Chicago, he was only the president of the US

I don't think elections hold a lot of promise of fixing anything. I think Manchin and Sinema are exactly where their party wants them. I don't think that this legislation failing is something that the Biden Admin or the DNC are against.

I think they're happy about it, and thats why there's no discipline exerted on either of them. That's what i meant by you making an extraordinary claim about party discipline. Theres no party discilple or reprisals because the party doesn't care about this legislation. They like having these scapegoats. The Democratic Party leadership does not share your view, that these people shouldn't be there. That's why elections in this system will not fix it

But what about mah civility and norms?!?!

Depending on what you mean by "left", i think its more of a "whitey's on the moon" position, than Musk. Space exploration has led to many scientific advances, the USSR's space program and the modern day PRC's shows the left has been and still is commited to space exploration.

But in the US in particular its another example of money going to anything but dealing with the ravages of capitalism in the population: homelessness, hunger, lack of medical care, poor education, etc.

China's collapse has been proclaimed imminent for like 40 years at least at this point

Is that context crucial though?

It gets brought up every time its pointed out how this is rascist, and it doesn't make the use of this mene less rascist

But is warning morally justified?

i think we know why you find that idea unpalatable

There's no such thing as human nature. What you call human nature is the result of material conditions

How does communism inform your perspective?

NATO aid and their not allowing Ukraine to negotiate peace is what is prolonging this war. We aren't arguing for all of Ukraine to become Russian territory, which hasn't been the position of the Russian Federation either.

We would like a negotiated peace that alllows the Donbas republics to leave Ukraine and join the Russian Federation as they've voted to do, and a promise for Ukraine to not become part of NATO. That senario is not the alternative you're talking about, or what you're implying we support.